Chapter 11.1 - Act 11: Slowly 1 (1/2)
Act 11: Slowly 1
“I heard that freshman junior left?”
The club president of the musical club Cantabile, Kim Sukwon looked forward feeling displeased but saw his colleague tilting his head without a particular expression.
Judging that it was just a question asked out of curiosity, Kim Sukwon slightly turned his head back and continued typing.
“Yeah. She sent me a message last week, saying she wanted to quit.”
“Really? That was sudden”
“Not really. From a while back, she didn’t hide her intention to leave.”
“That’s weird.”
Kim Sukwon halted his fingers.
Weird huh… To those that didn’t know about the situation, that might be a natural thing to feel. Song Mirae leaving the society did happen out of the blue as well.
What kind of place was Cantabile?
It was a renowned society which any student from the opera department would die to enter. Leaving such a society that came out on top of all sorts of competitions on their own was definitely a weird choice.
That is, unless they were aware of what happened between himself and Song Mirae.
Letting out a snort, Kim Sukwon indifferently opened his mouth.
“In the first place, I didn’t like her from the start. Did you see her talking back to me last time?”
“Did she?”
“She did. Plus her greetings were rude and her wide open eyes were always vicious. No manners despite being a junior…”
Thinking back, it felt like her attitude during the interview into the society was halfhearted as well. Back in my days, you couldn’t even look into your sunbae’s eyes… Kim Sukwon was murmuring that when the man faced a dumbfounded look at him.
“…Didn’t you fight with the club president when you were in first grade?”
“That was a difference in opinion.”
The man stared at Kim Sukwon for a while before shaking his head.
“Ehew. Right… that’s unfortunate though. She was good at acting, and her singing was decent as well. So, which society is she going into?”
“I don’t know. Where could she go though, during this time period? Some random place maybe.”
“That’s true. A society that has a spot open this late won’t be a proper one.”
There was something more important to handle than Song Mirae who had already left. Shrugging his shoulders, Kim Sukwon double-checked the completed document flashing on the screen.
[Club Activity Plans]
Saving the document, Kim Sukwon smiled in satisfaction.
*
“He’s Lim Suhjoon, a second-grader from the Violin Department. He’s a great guy that helps me a lot. Although he whines a little, he’s kind so you can ask him for a favour if something happens.”
“I don’t whine…”
Yun Soojin patted the complaining Lim Suhjoon on his head and gave us a bright smile.
“Nn… Is that it for the self-introductions? Ah! I’m a third-grader from the Visual Arts Department, Yun Soojin. Don’t be scared of me just because I’m older. Let’s have a fun time together!”
“Okay.”
Song Mirae grabbed Yun Soojin-sunbae’s hand and shook it which marked the end of self-introductions of the society members for Song Mirae. I stared at that scene before throwing a glance around.
The club room. It was Song Mirae’s first time coming here due to preparing for concerts and whatnot, but I had come here a few times already. Compared to a week ago, there didn’t seem to be much of a difference.
There was a long table in the middle as well as a few chairs here and there on which six upperclassmen seniors were sitting, waving their hands. Closets and bookshelves could be seen on either side of the room, and they were filled with bunches of papers.
Perhaps the sunbaes preferred clean environments, the room was relatively tidy. Seeing that unexpected cleanness, Song Mirae’s stiff expression eased slightly.
“At least they organised things nicely…”
Judging from her mutters, it seemed that she had been expecting an extremely dirty room.
Hmm… well, the building is quite old, so it was natural for its outer appearance to give a bad first impression. With a grin, I pointed to the side and introduced Song Mirae.
“She’s Song Mirae from the freshmen Opera Department and… originally she had been in the musical club but decided to leave it this semester so I brought her here.”
“Ahh~ the musical club? Nice to meet you Mirae!”
“Hello!”
After a back and forth relay of greetings, we were finally allowed to take our seats. Dragging a seat backward, Lim Suhjoon-sunbae collapsed on the seat and tapped on the table.
“Mm… Right. Both of you, welcome to our society and let’s try our best. First, since you’re new, I’ll give you a simple explanation about our society.”
“Okay.”
I glanced around and realised that Lim Suhjoon-sunbae seemed to be in the lead. Few second-grade sunbaes on the side stayed still and nodded their heads, while the only third-grader, Yun Soojiin-sunbae did nothing but smile.
Maybe the actual president of this society was that senior from the Violin Department. As a proof, when Lim Suhjoon-sunbae was explaining, words flowed out like a river and he seemed very used to it.
“Like I said before, we are a society that does everything, but the main activities we focus on are operas, musicals and plays. We can’t actually do anything we want right?”
Seeing us nod, Lim Suhjoon-sunbae continued his words.
“But apparently in the past, we had mostly been doing opera acts. After all, our school is on the classical side right? Back then, we had a lot of members from the Opera Department as well so there probably wasn’t much difficulty in carrying out operas.”
“…”
“A few things happened, and from our original club left the Musical Club and due to that, we lacked students from the Opera Department. Musicals and operas actually need quite a lot of members and since we lacked singers, we changed to plays and… yeah that’s what happened.”
It was a more eventful society than I thought. I listened to Lim Suhjoon-sunbae’s words with excitement as he rested his chin on his two hands and stared at us.
“Up to there is our society’s history. Next, let’s talk about our objectives for this semester.”
“Objectives?”
“Yes, goals. This semester, you guys as well as us decided to do a musical so we need to set our future goals.”
After looking into my eyes for a bit, Lim Suhjoon searched through his bag and took out a paper.
[Club Activity Plans]
I was reading the large words printed on the paper when he started speaking again while tapping on the paper.
“Doing a musical is good, but first we need money. Props as well as inviting a singing teacher from outside can only be done if we receive club support funds from the school. For that, we need to complete this, saying that in this semester, we will be doing this and that. We must promise them a good result plus a complete plan for the school to even consider giving us money.”